#the catholic who is not revolutionary is living in mortal sin etc

[eesirachs]

the maccabees hiding in the temple, refusing vessels to antiochus and reminding each other ‘heaven forbid’ (1 macc 2:21). the yahwists harvesting in assyrian exile, keeping votives and priestly rituals and reminding each other ‘heaven forbid.’ us, now, holding the hebrew narrative, remembering hashem at his most violent, his most needful, his softest; reading the prophets of hoy and rage and ḥesed, reminding each other that ‘heaven forbid’